Senior Employee Relations Practitioner

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

We are looking for a Specialist who is experienced in Employee Relations to join our Human Resource Department. You will be responsible for the facilitating the execution of the company policies as well as relevant legislation, to provide labour law advice and draft legal opinion’s where necessary, to represent the company at the CCMA and ensure that the Group is aware and/or complies with all the relevant labour laws

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Drafting, reviewing and updating policies in line with legislative changes and acceptable business practices
• Litigation management: instructing external attorneys on matters in the Labour court such as instituting or defending review applications
• Travel and litigation budget management
• Compiling monthly statistics and trends of the Labour environment within the business
• Keeping abreast of changes in legislation and advising the business on the impact
• Drafting legal opinions on the topic of employee relations and the applicable change in legislation
• Asses, facilitate, assist and advise on workplace conflict i.e. grievances, counselling and disciplinary enquiries
• Drafting and reviewing employment contracts and service level agreements
• Chair wage negotiations annually at manufacturing site
• Manage the union/employer relationship at Industries
• Providing efficient Labour law advise to management through recommendations, memorandums and consultation
• Draft and revise generic templates for employee relations processes such as poor work performance, disciplinary hearings, grievances, incapacity hearings etc.
• Preparing and attending CCMA conciliation, arbitration and in limine hearings
• Ensuring that employees are updated on processes, policies and rights applicable to them
• Providing employee relations training to the business based on the specific needs within the departments
• People management, including supervising and mentoring junior staff in the department

QUALIFICATION & REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS POSITION:

• LLB Degree.
• Admitted Attorney.
• 5 Years’ Labour law experience with 2 years’ as supervisor